After the BJP has thumping victory in 20 seats of the 28 by-elections, it would be a smooth sailing for Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Since a couple of Jyotiraditya Scindia supporters have lost the elections, Scindia would no longer remain a regional satraps, as he used to be in Congress party.
The trends and results so far suggested an emphatic win for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the bypolls.
The BJP won Mandhata, Suwasra and Badnavar while its candidates led at 15 others. Narayan Patel, Hardeep Singh Dang and Rajyawardhan Singh Dattigaon won at these seats respectively. Prabhuram Chaudhary of BJP also won from Sanchi in Raisen despite stiff internal resistance within BJP.Meanwhile Congress could only maintain lead at eight seats while BSP candidate was in the lead at Morena seat.
As soon as the counting began on Tuesday morning, the BJP candidates raced away with lead on Congress rivals and as the time progressed the BJP's win margin only swelled further.
Even as Congress party seniors like Digvijay Singh and PC Sharma reposed faith on EVM votes to gain recovery, the BJP kept mounting its lead. In no time, the BJP workers had gathered at party head office at Bhopal and started celebrations with drums, danced and distributed sweets.
Elated party workers called it an 'early Diwali' for them. With a broad smile, State head VD Sharma too had joined in with a drum.
Terming this win historic, Sharma greeted PM Narendra Modi, party president Amit Shah and working president JP Nadda. "Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh had engaged in corruption and looted the State and also challenged BJP workers with unlawful action on them and these workers have replied to this today."
The public has shown that it was Kamal Nath who was a traitor as he run the Government at the behest of Digvijaya Singh, added Sharma.
Public seems committed for development and welfare and it is evident the voters have decided to hand us the responsibility, tweeted CM Chouhan who enjoyed sweets with party seniors at BJP office in Bhopal.
MPCC chief Kamal Nath, who had worshipped lord Hanuman before coming to PCC office on Tuesday morning, quietly accepted defeat. "Whatever is the public mandate is paramount for us. We will accept the result," said Nath before leaving for his residence from PCC office even as the counting was underway.
Jyotiraditya Scindia aides, including Pradyumn Singh Tomar, Imati Devi and Munnalal Goyal, all led from Gwalior, Dabra and Gwalior East seats. However Scindia loyalist ministers - Girraj Danditiya, Aidal Singh Kansana were trailing.
His loyalist Jajpal Jajji was also trailing from Ashoknagar seat against Asha Dohare of Congress party. Barring a few, several of his loyalists were leading.
BSP had fielded candidates on all the seats but could only reach close to winning only one, Morena, where party's Ramprakash Rajoria was leading with over 10,000 votes till reports last came in.
Close fight was visible in seats like Bhander, Agar, Mahgaon, Ashoknagar, Ambah and others where BJP and Congress candidates are taking turns to gain lead. The lead has constantly remained under 1000 on these seats.
The BJP required only eight seats to gain majority on its own and it seems winning way more than what was required.
